Training course at the Institute of Management and Professional Development (IMPD) has been made compulsory for the officers of Punjab government and no officer in the Punjab province would be promoted in the next grade unless he attends the course.
Punjab Minister for Management and Professional Development, Sardar Hasan Mokal disclosed this while talking to Business Recorder here on Thursday.
Necessary instructions have already been issued to the Revenue Department for compilation of syllabus of the training course while the condition of attending this course would be strictly enforced with effect from January 2005, he added.
The provincial bureaucracy is very upset with this decision and instead of extending support is creating hurdles in implementation of the decision.
He also disclosed that the district nazims, town nazims, and town municipal officers are also being invited to attend the course as they are heading different offices. Besides, the Institute has already imparted training course to headmasters/headmistress while principals of the colleges would also be invited to attend the course, he maintained.
To a question, the minister said as many as 3780 officers of various grades have been imparted training at the institute since its inception.
In order to enhance quality of training at the Institute, a summary has been moved to the Chief Minister proposing raise up to Rs 2000 per lecture to foreign qualified professors, while remuneration is planned to increase up to Rs 3000 per lecture in phased manner provided the system continues, he added.
Mokal further said that keeping in view the importance of the subject and scope, the government has planned to expand its function and private sector organisations would also be asked to nominate their officers for participation in the training programme.
Specially, the export-oriented sectors would be focused for training so that country's exports could be enhanced, he asserted.
The minister said the department was created with a view to developing human resource in the country so as to enable the professionally trained manpower to go abroad and fetch foreign exchange to the national exchequer.
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